Quotessence
Home / Topics / Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism Quotes

Browse 2965 quotes about Capitalism.

Related topics

PeopleIfsSocialismWorldEconomicThinkingWayMenEconomyPoliticalGovernmentHumansDemocracySocialStatesCommunismHas BeensMeanFree MarketCountryNeedsEconomicsWantTodayBelieveFormWealthForceProblemGivingIndividualLibertyShouldWellsProfitAmericaKnowsIdeasPoliticsKindInterestWarDoeValuesMayLongTwoCenturyClassModernPoorProductionsSocialistTermAmerican CapitalismEnterpriseFactsRichEndsMoralConsumersMadeRunningYearsCommunistCultureSelfCompetitionDifferentHistoricalRevolutionWholeBusinessGreedHandsLooksOrderRealStillsCrisisDemocraticDevelopmentFightingFree Market CapitalismFirstsLeftProcessSeemsEconomic SystemsFacesPartyPovertyPracticeProduceRacismBigsConditionsCorporationsEvilLabourmore

Capitalism Quotes

“At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.”

WorldMindWellsHeartImportantRealSchoolGivenLeaderCapitalismEconomicsAssumingSignificantReal WorldDisregardUnificationHayekKnowledge And PowerFriedrich Hayek
Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
Create image

“A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.”

PeopleHeartSaidUseValuesFatherCapitalismAskingNotesLovelySocialismSuperiorsGoldenCommunismRelativeJesuitRelative Value
Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Create image

“9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.”

PeopleWorldHeartCountryMatterStatesUnitedPowerfulWatchesUnited StatesCapitalismTradeDefenseBordersMost PowerfulNew WorldSignalsCathedralsInterdependencePentagonPowerful Countries
Author:Benjamin Barber
Create image

“It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.”

WorldHeartMilitaryEventsMessagesCapitalismTradeSymbolsSpokesMeant To BeUnusualEstablishmentNegotiationPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterHeadquartersAmerican MilitaryAmerican CapitalismWere Not Meant To Be
Author:Edward Said
Create image

“Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.”

PeopleWorldHeartDesireFoundMilitaryEventsCapitalismTradeBottomHarmScalesInnocentSymbolsEstablishmentShockingNew YorkersPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterHeadquartersAmerican MilitaryAmerican Capitalism
Author:Edward Said
Create image

“My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).”

ThinkingWayFeelsMindHeartWarFeelingsWinningLinesPsychologyConditionsBattleCapitalismEconomicsBottomConvictionFundamentalismHeart And MindBottom Line
Author:James Hillman
Create image

“Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same protection as others - I don['t care whether you call it capitalism or communism -it is not going to work. Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counterpower, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.”

MindHeartLongMadeCareGuyRightsGroupsCapitalismDon't CareProtectionCommunismI Don't CareHeart And MindGoing To Work
Author:Cesar Chavez
Create image

“In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.”

WellsHeartStoriesGovernmentAmericaMovingCausesViewsKnownRecordsCapitalismSeriesNewspapersMoving ForwardDespiteCorporateCorporationsHeartacheBarriersMidstHeartlessReferringWhiningShacklesDownsizingNaftaDisgruntledLaid Off
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image